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Planet Hulk is one incredible world wind ride. If you like sci-fi, action and adventure with a certain green monster that likes to smash, this is the book to own. This is way better than the Marvel's Civil War event in my humble opinion. Tricked by Reed Richards and others, jettison the Hulking brute into deep space. The Hulk lands on a planet ruled by the Red King. He is cruel and dictator that his little care for his people. The Hulk is captured and sold off as a gladiator slave. The Hulk and his motley crew of Warbreakers lead an insurrection against the Red King. Along the way, the Hulk battles the Silver Surfer, free the slaves, provide nutrients for plants with his blood soak radiated blood, saves the worlds, gets married and unite the people. But there is no happy ending. The puny humans have once again enraged the Hulk that I shall not give away. When the Hulk gets mad, he gets stronger, and the puny humans will pay! Go out and buy this now. If only they could turn this story into a movie, it would be a smashing green success!
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This is a great great great Hulk story. Must pickup prelude to see how it all fits together first. VERY COOL STUFF!!!
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I never thought I'd love Hulk. God, how wrong I was...
It's a classic Marvel epic story, with all that story should have - beautiful concept, amazing characters, well written plot and it's as emotive and wise as any story should be. Amazing art, and it doesn't end here, it just leads for the next big thing - and believe me, it looks so sweet!
I don't think I ever fallen in love with a character as fast as I did with Hulk on this story..
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i picked this up based on buzz and reviews that made this book look like the best thing since sliced bread. also it didn't hurt that ladronn did some absolutely stellar cover work. maybe this run is so well regarded because it followed bruce jones's run, which started out rather great but floundered. the premise is fine, and there is a lot of smashing, but i didn't quite see what all the fuss was about. there isn't a whole lot of story for 14+ issues, and the padding really shows in places. i really think the pacing would have been much better if there was some down time on the planet to give the hulk and the reader a sense that he really was sent to a peaceful planet and create some tension and maybe do some character work on the hulk before he's attacked.
the portrayal of the hulk is good, but i thought there was something really missing in the appearances of bruce banner. i like the hulk, but i would really have loved to see banner's take on the situation he and the hulk have been thrown into. he shows up three times, and each appearance comes off as awkward for some reason or another. of particular interest is his appearance where a character wants to see "all" of the hulk, so he transforms into banner for her. the idea of hulk accepting banner as a part of himself should have been a landmark moment for both hulk and banner (perhaps the most important and central moment in the character's history considering that for hulk's entire existence he's been at odds with banner), but the moment is completely glossed over. this is the story for all of banner's appearances. there's so much potential in the hulk's duality. it could have been a compelling and fascinating element of the story, and it's all just glossed over. wasted potential really. and with all the "extra" room in these 14+ issues there was plenty of space to explore the hulk/banner relationship, but of course that would have required some true character work. i can't disagree that pak "gets" the hulk, but there's not a whole lot to the hulk. banner is more interesting, and pak's banner is just plain confusing. in a way banner's story could be the most compelling part of the whole saga, since for all he knows he's trapped inside the hulk on this planet forever and will never return to earth again, but there isn't even an effort to make that come across. the same goes for hulk's friends' reactions (or lack thereof) to banner showing up. wasted potential.
the art is fine. it gets the job done, but that's about it. and the supplemental material bothers me. honestly i never like it when these books come out with a stack of background material, except when they're interesting, of course. and sketchbook material is always welcome. but what we have here is a handbook-style documantation of the culture and miscellany of this planet. for my tastes it's all a wasted effort. if none of this information came across in the story i don't understand why anyone besides the exceptionally bored or exceptionally geeky would be at all interested. even at the same price i'd prefer this material be excluded from the collection, just to save some trees. life's too short to read even a little bit of it.
all-in-all this is an above average read. it's not deep by any means, and you're sure to be disappointed if you expect a five-star book, but if you like to read about the hulk smashing things you should like this. and i can't say enough good things about ladronn's cover work on this series. maybe not quite worth the price of admission alone, but pretty close.
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Loved this story line for the Hulk, for so long has he been the anti-hero in the Marvel universe. So what happens when you lie to the Hulk and the World's greatest heroes decide to send him off to another Planet, to basically... die alone? As I read each page, I was intrigued to see how the Hulk handled himself, how an alien world would get to know the Hulk. The only thing that got me was the art work. I wish it would have been better, some panels looked good but over all the art prevented me from giving this review a 5 star ending. If you're a Hulk fan and feel for the hero being sent away from home... you'll feel his pain and rage too.
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